Re: Need a regex..

[ikegami]

in reply to Need a regex..

It's unclear what you want.

If you're trying to match «a string that isn't "Select"», you want

$s !~ /^Select\z/

If you're trying to match «a string that doesn't contain "Select"», you want

$s !~ /Select/

If you're trying to match «any number of characters that don't contain the substring "Select"», you want

$s =~ /(?:(?!Select).)*/s

(This last one would normally be used as part of a larger pattern.)

---

/(?:(?!STRING).)*/s

is to

/STRING/

as

/[^CHAR]/

is to

/CHAR/